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  • Centralia, PA
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  • The Erebus Chalice in the Chapel of the Snows
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  • Interior of the Chapel of the Snows
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  • St. Nicholas Breaker
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  • First Snowfall Dates, St Nicholas Breaker, St Nicholas, PA
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  • Beaver Hut, East Branch Hinsdale, MA
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  • St. Nicholas Breaker
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  • Visually it was stunning, the sun lit the snow to a golden color and the drift tore down 12,000 foot Erebus and across the sea ice creating small tornadoes and dense clouds of snow that would occasionally blot out all but the nearest one or two flagged poles marking the route. At times the blown snow stayed at ground level, blowing hard from right to left across our route, and it was so thick that I couldn’t see the ground, rather it felt like I was crossing a fast flowing river of snow. It was disorienting, and if not for the flagged poles it would be easy to loose direction.
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  • Ducking behind a snow drift while the wind blown snow blasts above. The temperature was -26 F (-32 C) with a windchill of -51 F (-46 C).
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  • Logistics Arch, in the ice at the South Pole Station. These spaces are at a constant temperature of the surrounding ice, -49 C (-57 F). The arch was originally built at the surface level, but snow accumulation, primarily from drifting snow, has buried the arch, causing concerns for the structural integrity of these storage and work spaces.
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  • Logistics Arch, in the ice at the South Pole Station. These spaces are at a constant temperature of the surrounding ice, -49 C (-57 F). The arch was originally built at the surface level, but snow accumulation, primarily from drifting snow, has buried the arch, causing concerns for the structural integrity of these storage and work spaces.
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  • Ducking behind a snow drift while the wind blown snow blasts above. The temperature was -26 F (-32 C) with a windchill of -51 F (-46 C).
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  • SuperDARN antenna array getting buried by the incessant drifting snow, South Pole Station in the distance.
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  • The bottom side of the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station. The building was designed so that the prevailing winds would scour the snow from under the station building, and it seems to work, with large drifts building up on either side of the station but not under.
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  • Snow mobiling across New Harbor at the Ferrar Glacier
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  • The moat allowed us to ride snow mobiles all the way from Explorers Cove and get fairly close to the Ferrar Glacier. Erebus in the distance across McMurdo Sound.
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  • 2 Iron Bed frames in an otherwise wide open snow field, Adventdalen
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  • Hut Point during a brief but intense snow squall
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  • Hut Point during a brief but intense snow squall
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  • Hiding behind a drift while the wind blown snow blasts above. Temperature was minus 26 f. with a windchill of minus 51.
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  • Yes, Palmer does get a lot of snow
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  • Wind blown snow on McMurdo Sound
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  • Sand blown down Taylor Valley ends up on the sea ice. The snow figures on Mt. Coleman are know locally as "two peeing men". A comforting landmark I can see from Observation Hill 50 miles away at McMurdo Station.
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  • The bottom side of the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station. The building was designed so that the prevailing winds would scour the snow from under the station building, and it seems to work, with large drifts building up on either side of the station but not under.
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  • SuperDARN antenna array getting buried by the incessant drifting snow, South Pole Station in the distance.
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  • View up Adventdalen from Longyearbyen, Coal dust can be seen on the snow at Mine #7, the only active mine near Longyearbyen
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  • Well signed bunkhouse at Black Island. If you watch the film "Antarctica: A Year on the Ice" you will see this bunk house when the film maker, Anthony Powell, visits Black Island in the winter, and the entire inside of this bunk house is filled with snow and ice.
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  • The moat allowed us to ride snow mobiles all the way from Explorers Cove and get fairly close to the Ferrar Glacier.
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  • Flagstaff Hill and penguin colony, Cape Royds, with supply crates. Cape Royds was hit with a massive storm shortly after Shackleton arrived, burying many of the supply crates so deep in snow and ice that some were never recovered during the expedition.
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  • Tracks in the snow at Marble Point
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  • Snow filled D6 Bulldozer
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  • A hurricane strength blizzard struck the party when they were in this stone igloo, and it’s the telling of this story by Cherry-Garrard that makes this ruin significant. The roof was torn from the igloo, and their tent was carried away, leaving the 3 men stranded in the igloo enduring hurricane force winds and getting buried under snow for days. In the end they managed to collect three frozen eggs.
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  • Birch Trees after snow storm on Appalachian Trail
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  • Pheriche, Nepal, Hotel Snow Land guest house sign and trail toward Everest Base Camp
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  • Snow Storm, Bismark Strait, Antarctica
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  • Tupolev A-3 Aerosledge, a Russian made air propeller driven vehicle for traveling on both snow and water. Barentsburg, Spitsbergen.
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  • Snow mobiles on McMurdo Sound from Hut Point. Probably the biology team returning from Big Razorback Island where they have a Weddell Seal study area. #3 Fish Hut in background.
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  • Split ventifact. Ventifacts are rocks shaped by wind blown sand. Because there is no erosion from rain and little from melting snow, the landscape takes on an unusual appearance we are not used to seeing, something closer to a Mars or Lunar landscape.
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  • McMurdo and Observation Hill after snow from Hut Point Ridge Loop Trail
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  • Wilson's Igloo, Igloo Spur, Cape Crozier, Antarctica. "Our scheme was to build an igloo with rock walls, banked up with snow, using a nine-foot sledge as a ridge beam, and a large sheet of green Willesden canvas as a roof. We had also brought a board to form a lintel over the door. Here with the stove, which was to be fed with blubber from the penguins, we were to have a comfortable warm home whence we would make excursions to the rookery perhaps four miles away. Perhaps we would manage to get our tent down to the rookery itself and do our scientific work there on the spot, leaving our nice hut for a night or more. That is how we planned it."  Apsley Cherry-Garrard, The Worst Journey in the World 1910-1913
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  • View from Tengboche Monastery toward Mt. Everest. Everest is the triangular peak visible with the snow plume, just visible above the Nuptse-Lhotse wall. The tents in the foreground belong to a group of New Zealanders, including Sir Edmund Hillary, who was at Tengboche constructing a new school. Ama Dablam is the peak on the right side of the photo.
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  • Hotel Snow Land, Pheriche, Nepal, in 1987
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  • Other objects in the igloo, penguin skin and what appears to be part of the canvas roof popping up through the snow cover.
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  • Yours truly (Shaun O'Boyle) on the sea ice on route toward the Ferrar Glacier. Yes, we drove over that surface on snow mobiles, somehow weaving a path through.
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  • Chapel of the Snows
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